Events

Event Date

Event Name

Event Type

Friday, December 09, 2016

01:00 pm

Shorebreak: The Clark Little Story

Part of Honolulu Surf Film Festival: Winter Break 2016
Directed by Peter King. 2016. USA. 55 min.
Dive into the life of renowned water photographer Clark Little as he takes on the world’s most dangerous shorebreak around the...

Film

07:30 pm

Axi Muniain: El Niño

Part of Honolulu Surf Film Festival: Winter Break 2016
Directed by Javier Goya. Spain. 2016. 40 min. Spanish with English subtitles.
Last winter, surfers Axi Muniain from Basque Country and Jérome Sahyoun from Morocco...

Film

Sunday, December 11, 2016

01:00 pm

Sorria

Part of Honolulu Surf Film Festival: Winter Break 2016
Directed by Gabriel Novis. Brazil. 2016. 42 min. Portuguese with English subtitles.
“Sorria” means smile in Portuguese and this film will definitely ma...

Join docent Nancy Whitman for a tour featuring the exhibition Ōtsu-e: the Revitalization of Japanese Folk Prints in the 20th Century, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum.
Free ...

Tour

04:00 pm

Saltwater Buddha

Part of Honolulu Surf Film Festival: Winter Break 2016
Directed by Lara Popyack. USA. 2015. 60 min.
Fed up with teenage life in the suburbs of Sacramento, Air Force brat Jaimal Yogis ran off to Hawai‘i with little more than ...

Film

07:30 pm

Gaza Surf Club

Part of Honolulu Surf Film Festival: Winter Break 2016
Directed by Philip Gnadt and Mickey Yamine. Germany/Palestine. 2016. 87 min. English and Arabic with English subtitles.
Wedged between Israel and Egypt and isolated from the o...

Film

Monday, December 12, 2016

07:30 pm

View From a Blue Moon

Part of Honolulu Surf Film Festival: Winter Break 2016
Directed by Blake Vincent Kueny. USA. 2015. 59 min.
Hailed as the greatest surf film ever made, View from a Blue Moon focuses in Hawai‘i’s John John Florence&mdash...

Film

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

01:00 pm

Gaza Surf Club

Part of Honolulu Surf Film Festival: Winter Break 2016
Directed by Philip Gnadt and Mickey Yamine. Germany/Palestine. 2016. 87 min. English and Arabic with English subtitles.
Wedged between Israel and Egypt and isolated from the o...

Film

02:30 pm

Tour + Talk Story: Batik textiles of Indonesia

Join docents Mary Rhine + Jacquelyn Wesolosky for a themed tour, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum.
Free with museum admission.

Tour

07:30 pm

Gaza Surf Club

Part of Honolulu Surf Film Festival: Winter Break 2016
Directed by Philip Gnadt and Mickey Yamine. Germany/Palestine. 2016. 87 min. English and Arabic with English subtitles.
Wedged between Israel and Egypt and isolated from the o...

Film

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

01:00 pm

Sorria

Part of Honolulu Surf Film Festival: Winter Break 2016
Directed by Gabriel Novis. Brazil. 2016. 42 min. Portuguese with English subtitles.
“Sorria” means smile in Portuguese and this film will definitely ma...

Film

07:30 pm

Axi Muniain: El Niño

Part of Honolulu Surf Film Festival: Winter Break 2016
Directed by Javier Goya. Spain. 2016. 40 min. Spanish with English subtitles.
Last winter, surfers Axi Muniain from Basque Country and Jérome Sahyoun from Morocco...

Film

Thursday, December 15, 2016

01:00 pm

The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch

Directed by David Bickerstaff. UK/Netherlands. 2016. 90 min.
Delve into the vivid imagination of a true visionary. The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch features the critically acclaimed exhibition Jheronimus Bosch: Visions of Genius at...

Film

02:30 pm

Tour + Talk Story: Batik textiles of Indonesia

Join docents Mary Rhine + Jacquelyn Wesolosky for a themed tour, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum.
Free with museum admission.

Tour

07:30 pm

The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch

Directed by David Bickerstaff. UK/Netherlands. 2016. 90 min.
Delve into the vivid imagination of a true visionary. The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch features the critically acclaimed exhibition Jheronimus Bosch: Visions of Genius at...

Film

Friday, December 16, 2016

01:00 pm

The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch

Directed by David Bickerstaff. UK/Netherlands. 2016. 90 min.
Delve into the vivid imagination of a true visionary. The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch features the critically acclaimed exhibition Jheronimus Bosch: Visions of Genius at...

Film

07:30 pm

Willow Sings Songs of the Season

Vocalist Willow Chang and friends celebrate the holidays in song. From sacred to secular, old world to new world, Willow's favorite music spans wonderment and joy, and even the slippery slope of quiet melancholy. A musical, emotional jou...

Performance

Saturday, December 17, 2016

01:00 pm

The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch

Directed by David Bickerstaff. UK/Netherlands. 2016. 90 min.
Delve into the vivid imagination of a true visionary. The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch features the critically acclaimed exhibition Jheronimus Bosch: Visions of Genius at...

Film

07:30 pm

Music of Hawai‘i: HAPA

Maui-based HAPA performs only two or three Honolulu shows a year these days—and this is one of them!
Founding member Barry Flanagan returns to the Doris Duke Theatre with new partner Ron Kuala‘au to play the band's trademark...

Performance

Sunday, December 18, 2016

11:00 am

Solstice Celebrations

Celebrate the end of the year with a mixed bag of holiday-themed activities.
Entertainment and art activities end at 3pm.
ART ACTIVITIES
• Satisfy your sweet tooth: Get into the holiday spirit by decorating cookies. Add...

Bank of Hawaii Family Sunday

11:10 am

Family Film Sunday: NYICFF Best of the Fest 2

Cats claw up a whole lot of trouble in One Hell of a Plan, Air-Mail, and Minoule. Fables come to life in very different ways in My Grandfather Was a Cherry Tree and The Man, The Boy and the Donkey. A pl...

Film

01:00 pm

Family Film Sunday: NYICFF Best of the Fest 2

Cats claw up a whole lot of trouble in One Hell of a Plan, Air-Mail, and Minoule. Fables come to life in very different ways in My Grandfather Was a Cherry Tree and The Man, The Boy and the Donkey. A pl...

Film

03:00 pm

Frozen Sing-Along

Directed by Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee. USA. 2013. 107 mins.
Grown ups and kids—let go with this sing-along version of the magical, hilarious Disney extravaganza. Dance and sing in your best princess wear. The evening includes live ...

Film

06:00 pm

Frozen Sing-Along

Directed by Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee. USA. 2013. 107 mins.
Grown ups and kids—let go with this sing-along version of the magical, hilarious Disney extravaganza. Dance and sing in your best princess wear. The evening includes live ...

Film

Monday, December 19, 2016

10:00 am

Theater closure

The Doris Duke Theatre will be closed from Dec 19, 2016 to Jan 5, 2017, as it undergoes air conditioning maintenance.

Performance

10:00 am

Theater closure

The Doris Duke Theatre will be closed from Dec 19, 2016 to Jan 5, 2017, as it undergoes air conditioning maintenance.

Film

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Join docent Cathy Levinson for a tour featuring the exhibition Charles Furneaux and the Sublime, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum.
Free with museum admission.

Tour

Thursday, December 22, 2016

10:00 am

Uki-e: Western Perspective in Japanese Woodblock Prints

One of the defining characteristics of painting from the Italian Renaissance (14th–16th century) was the application of geometric theories to the depiction of three-dimensional space. Linear perspective, as this mathematically base...

Join docent Cathy Levinson for a tour featuring the exhibition Charles Furneaux and the Sublime, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum.
Free with museum admission.

Tour

Tuesday, December 27, 2016

02:30 pm

Tour + Talk Story: Tricks of the eye: How artists use our perceptions

Join docent Steve Miller for a themed tour, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum.
Free with museum admission.

Tour

Thursday, December 29, 2016

02:30 pm

Tour + Talk Story: Tricks of the eye: How artists use our perceptions

Join docent Steve Miller for a themed tour, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum.
Free with museum admission.

Tour

Sunday, January 01, 2017

01:00 pm

HoMA SELECT Shuttle Tour

Tuesdays 1-3:30pm, beginning January 2017
Free with museum admission
See the best of what Honolulu Museum of Art has to offer at both its locations on this docent-led tour of works featured in the museum’s new Collection Highligh...

Tour

Tuesday, January 03, 2017

02:30 pm

Tour + Talk Story: Exquisite art in the new Islamic gallery

Join docent Susan Palmore for a themed tour, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum.
Free with museum admission.

Tour

Thursday, January 05, 2017

02:30 pm

Tour + Talk Story: Exquisite art in the new Islamic gallery

Join docent Susan Palmore for a themed tour, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum.
Free with museum admission.

Tour

Friday, January 06, 2017

07:30 pm

Carlos Barbosa-Lima: Music of the Americas, Hawai‘i, and Spain

Fresh off a tour in South America, legendary world-class guitarist Carlos Barbosa-Lima returns to Honolulu with a special concert celebrating the music of the Americas and Hawai‘i. The program will include arrangements from compose...

Performance

Sunday, January 08, 2017

02:30 pm

Tour + Talk Story: Exquisite art in the new Islamic gallery

Join docent Susan Palmore for a themed tour, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum.
Free with museum admission.

Tour

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

02:30 pm

Tour + Talk Story: European art and politics: Post World War II

Join docent Maeona Mendelson for a tour featuring the exhibition European Art after World War II: Existentialism, Pure Expression, and the Reinvention of Tradition, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entr...

Tour

Thursday, January 12, 2017

02:30 pm

Tour + Talk Story: European art and politics: Post World War II

Join docent Maeona Mendelson for a tour featuring the exhibition European Art after World War II: Existentialism, Pure Expression, and the Reinvention of Tradition, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entr...

Tour

Monday, January 16, 2017

11:00 am

Bollywood

Celebrate India through art, music, and dance! Kids can make “marigold jewelry” out of tissue paper and tassle key chains. Learn some moves with dance troupe Aaja Nachle and get a henna tattoo.
Entertainment and art act...

Bank of Hawaii Family Sunday

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

02:30 pm

Tour + Talk Story: Kamishibai: Japanese storytelling

Join docent Maeona Mendelson for a themed tour, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum.
Free with museum admission.

Tour

Thursday, January 19, 2017

02:30 pm

Tour + Talk Story: Kamishibai: Japanese storytelling

Join docent Maeona Mendelson for a themed tour, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum.
Free with museum admission.

Tour

Sunday, January 22, 2017

02:30 pm

Tour + Talk Story: Kamishibai: Japanese storytelling

Join docent Maeona Mendelson for a themed tour, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum.
Free with museum admission.

Tour

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

02:30 pm

Tour + Talk Story: The symbolism of Ganesha

Join docent Carol Bonham for a themed tour, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum.
Free with museum admission.

Tour

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

01:00 pm

Book Club: Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan

Led by Susan Palmore
Willliam Finnegan, a New Yorker staff writer, leads a counterlife as an obsessive surfer, traveling around the world, throwing his human body into line after line of waves in search of transient moments of grace.

Tour

Thursday, January 26, 2017

02:30 pm

Tour + Talk Story: The symbolism of Ganesha

Join docent Carol Bonham for a themed tour, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum.
Free with museum admission.

Tour

Friday, January 27, 2017

06:00 pm

Cock-A-Doodle-New-Year

Celebrate the Year of the Rooster at the museum!
ART + ENTERTAINMENT
• Shake your tail feathers to beats by DJ Jem!
Check back soon for full list of programming.
PARKafterDARK
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ARTafterDARK

Saturday, January 28, 2017

01:00 pm

Book Club: Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan

Led by Susan Palmore
Willliam Finnegan, a New Yorker staff writer, leads a counterlife as an obsessive surfer, traveling around the world, throwing his human body into line after line of waves in search of transient moments of grace.

Tour

Sunday, January 29, 2017

02:30 pm

Tour + Talk Story: The symbolism of Ganesha

Join docent Carol Bonham for a themed tour, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum.
Free with museum admission.

Tour

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Join docent Mary Rhine for a tour featuring the exhibition Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum.
Free with museum admission.

Tour

Thursday, February 02, 2017

10:00 am

Mizusashi: Japanese Water Jars from the Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz C...

The water jar (mizusashi), usually made of ceramic, has a significant role in the Japanese chanoyu tea gathering. The sixteen mizusashi in this exhibition are on loan from Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz, who have one of the finest, most exten...

Exhibition

10:00 am

Francisco Goya: The Disasters of War

More than any other Spanish artist of his generation, Francisco Goya (1746–1828) gave visual form to the Enlightenment by examining the tension between rationalism and superstition, truth and religion, and society and the individua...

Join docent Mary Rhine for a tour featuring the exhibition Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum.
Free with museum admission.

Tour

Sunday, February 05, 2017

Join docent Mary Rhine for a tour featuring the exhibition Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum.
Free with museum admission.

Tour

Tuesday, February 07, 2017

02:30 pm

Tour + Talk Story: Karen Hampton: The Journey North

Join docent Sandra Simms for a tour featuring the exhibition Karen Hampton: The Journey North, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum.
Free with museum admission.

Tour + Talk Story: Karen Hampton: The Journey North

Join docent Sandra Simms for a tour featuring the exhibition Karen Hampton: The Journey North, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum.
Free with museum admission.

Tour

Thursday, February 16, 2017

Join docent Cathy Levinson for a tour featuring the exhibition Charles Furneaux and the Sublime, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum.
Free with museum admission.